AVADirect First to Offer Powerful Clevo Gaming Notebook, It’s Based on the New X79 Chipset

AVADirect states that the company is the first to offer the Clevo P270WM gaming notebook, and it’s based on Intel’s X79 chipset and the newest Sandy Bridge-E processors. The Clevo P270WM is a fully customizable gaming notebook; AVADirect states that users can “expect performance increases as much as 35-50 percent [versus gaming notebooks on the market that are not based on the X79 chipset].” The notebook can be equipped with up to an Intel 6-core processor, the i7-3960X.

Clevo P270WM

The 17.3-inch Clevo P270WM gaming and desktop replacement is the successor of the popular Clevo X7200, and features a brand new design on top of the new processor choices. The new design can fit up to three 9.5-inch hard drives (optional RAID), has two USB 3.0 ports, SLI support, an HD display, HDMI 1.4a support, and a re-designed ExpressCard slot.

The NVIDIA GTX 580M 2GB is the standard graphics card included inside – it offers SLI support, 384 CUDA cores – but 768 CUDA cores when in SLI. Also offered up is the NVIDIA Quadro 5010M 4GB GPU for the “elite” option in GPUs. The memory can be set to quad-channel DDR3 SDRAM for speeds up to 1866MHz and up to the 32GB capacity (four slots). If that wasn’t enough, the P270WM also supports 3D technology and has a backlit keyboard for use in darkly lit areas.

Pricing & AvailabilityUsers can pre-order the Clevo P270WM gaming and desktop replacement notebook today. The base configuration starts at $3,070 and features the Intel Core i7-3930K (six-core CPU at 3.2GHz), GTX 580M 2B discrete graphics card, 4GB of DDR3 RAM at 1333Mhz, 750GB capacity hard drive at 7200rpm, and Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit. Check out the AVADirect configuration page for the notebook for more information, and to pre-order.

Be sure to check the home page at NotebookReview.com because we hope to have a full review of the AVADirect Clevo P270WM very soon.